— What am I? — It shouldn’t be such a hard question, but it’s not something I’ve ever put much thought into, or how it shapes my identity and sense of belonging. I’ve always called myself a “hybrid,” although I’ve grown up in white culture,... Read more
Hi, I'm VanessaSaurus, a Software Engineer.
Building tools, containers, and cloudy things, with a penchant for Python and parsnips. -- about me
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— Ghost Ride it! — The Ghost Rider is pretty spectacular, if not embarrassing :O) Read more
— Doing things for you makes me feel good — but if off balance, it might push you away. The Ben Franklin Effect says that we come to like more those people for whom we do a favor. So we like people not based on the favors they do for... Read more
— Affection: the spectrum of emotional vs physical — This is the way that it usually works, when I want to express what I’m thinking: when it rains, it pours! So I want to talk about one more idea, Kelly’s idea of “constructs.” Constructs are interpretations that we have... Read more